In the context of a broader work that focuses on defining my own identity, the desire of finding a connection with my mother, to whom I am not close, has pushed me at the same time towards self portraiture and family archive research.

Starting from the belief that trauma is passed down within a family, generation after generation, I’ve come to look at the history of four generations of women in my family as a story of women that, over the past century, were trapped by the role society wanted them to fulfil. At the same time, they were each escaping their personal familial roles of motherhood, their own mothers.